What is EPOS GNSS Data and Products? What is it for?

Thousands of public and privately owned permanent GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System(stations) are operating in Europe and the main challenge of the GNSS community is therefore to build a joint European GNSS data and product distribution system.

Both, national networks and those of the IAG Reference Frame Sub-Commission for Europe (EUREF), contribute with the aim to increase the number of available data at European level to generate products based on larger number of stations for the Solid Earth research community.

For the data distribution service, GNSS Data & Products focuses on data (RINEX files) that are available some hours or days after data acquisition. By connecting all data and products from repositories through an open source software named GLASS (Geodetic Linking Advanced Software System), GNSS Data & Products is offering to researchers in Solid Earth science as well as researchers in other sciences a distributed and consistent platform to access data & products (and associated metadata).

This priceless tool is useful for everyone who needs to count on reliable data for being able to support research by accessing only one integrated system with data from many European GNSS stations.